in the Joicey Collection. 279 



browner face ; also (except from semihyalina, which has a 

 white dorsal line and is, especially in Ceylon, much smaller) 

 by the shape. Assuming that the $ has non-dilated hind 

 tibia, the natural position will be next to the last-named 

 species. 



Subfam. Stebbbinm. 

 3. Scopida linearis, f. alstoni, form. n. 



$ ? . — Differs from name-typical linearis, Hinpsn. (111. 

 Het. Brit. Mus. viii. p. 123), in that the incurved portions of 

 the postmedian line (between the radials and behind M 2 — 

 both here conspicuously blackened) are followed distally by 

 dark patches (ochreous irrorated with black, especially at 

 their distal extremity) about as in stigmata, Moore, or some 

 forms of walker i, Butl. 



Ceylon: Uva, 500 feet, May (G. C.Alston), a pair in 

 coll. Joicey ; also a poor $ from Pundaloya (E. E. Green), 

 in coll. Brit. Mus. 



I have not seen the linearis form from Ceylon, so that this 

 may well prove a constant race, or even representative species, 

 as I at first thought the hind tibia appeared still thicker; but 

 the known variability of some species of the group in respect 

 of the postmedian blotches makes me hesitate until more 

 material is available. Name-typical linearis is fairly frequent 

 in the Nilgiri and Palni Hills, and occurs also in Sikkim and 

 Bhotan ; from none of these localities have I seen specimens 

 approaching the alstoni form. 



4. Scopula subpartita, sp. n. 



c?.— 26-28 mm. 



Face brown-black, narrowly whitish below. Palpus 

 black above, ochreous whitish beneath. Vertex and antennal 

 shaft light ochreous brown ; collar darker ; antennal joints 

 slightly projecting, ciliation nearly twice as long as diameter 

 of shaft. Thorax and abdomen light ochreous brown, more 

 whitish beneath ; abdomen dorsally with some black irrora- 

 tion and ill-defined medio-dorsal spots. Fore leg and (more 

 slightly) mid leg infuscated on upper and inner side ; hind 

 tibia rather long, dilated, fringed above and with rather long- 

 whitish hair-pencil ; hind tarsus nearly one-third as lon°- as 

 tibia. 



Fore icing moderately broad, costa gently arched poste- 

 riorly, term en smooth, little curved ; light ochreous brown, 

 appearing slightly darker and rougher than in most of the 

 nesciaria group, on account of slight greyish suffusions and 



